Button-down, baby-faced beast Alex Kelly – the once-privileged son of wealthy parents from tony Darien, Conn. – whined yesterday that he can’t afford to cough up a $10,000 fine as part of his court case. And that could keep him jailed.

“I have no assets, I have no savings, I have no prospects,” insisted Kelly, who had spent nearly eight years on the lam, reportedly skiing and bumming around Europe on his parents’ dime, before being nabbed in 1995.

Kelly’s lawyer said he earns $1.75 a day working a menial prison job and has just $78.60 in his commissary account.

A skeptical Judge Richard Commerford asked Kelly if “your mother or father” could pay the fine. His parents, who were not in the Stamford courtroom, live in a mansion.

But Kelly scoffed.

“I’m a 40-year-old man,” he said, prompting the judge to snap, “I didn’t ask you that.”

Kelly continued, “My mother and father are independent citizens. I’m an individual on my own. It’s not their responsibility, so I wouldn’t ask them to pay off the fine.”

A frustrated Commerford appeared to leave open the possibility that Kelly’s parents could be on the hook for the fine – or face having their son imprisoned beyond his scheduled Nov. 23 release.

Kelly – who returns to court next week – has served more than 10 years in prison for viciously raping two teenage girls in separate attacks in Darien in 1986.